Nuclear Power Plants in Oregon & Washington
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Columbia Location: WA Operator: Energy Northwest Configuration: 1 X 1,250 MW BWR Operation: 1984 Reactor supplier: GE T/G supplier: WH EPC: Burns & Roe, Bechtel Quick facts: Columbia was developed and built as the Washington Public Power Supply System WNP-2 project, and is the only one to complete of the five units originally proposed as part of the WPPSS nuclear program. The facility was built on an 1,089ac site leased from the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Reservation on the Columbia River. The site was certified by the state in 1972 and the construction permit was issued in Mar 1973. Commercial operation was in Dec 1984. Electricity is sold at cost to BPA. Energy Northwest is a joint operating agency with 28 member utilities.
Photograph courtesy of Energy Northwest |
Hanford N Location: WA Operator: Washington Public Power Supply System Configuration: 1 X 860 MW Operation: 1966 (ret 1988) Reactor supplier: n/a T/G supplier: GE Quick facts: This was a unique generating unit running off waste heat from a graphite-moderated plutonium production reactor at the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Reservation on the Columbia River. The project originated in 1956 as the last of nine plutonium production reactors at Hanford..
Photograph courtesy of U.S. Dept of Energy (wikipedia)
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Trojan Location: OR Operator: Portland General Electric Configuration: 1 X 1,216 MW PWR Operation: 1976 (ret 1992) Reactor supplier: WH T/G supplier: GE EPC: Bechtel Quick facts: This was the only nuclear plant in Oregon and is the largest LWR to have been decommissioned. Trojan had many features later incorporated in the Westinghouse Standard Nuclear Unit Power Plant System (SNUPPS), a 4-loop PWR design built at Callaway 1&2 (Unit-2 was cancelled) and Wolf Creek in the USA and, with some modifications, at Sizewell-B in England.
Photograph by Daniel Dunn |
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WNP 3/5 (Satsop) Location: WA Operator: Washington Public Power Supply System Configuration: 2 X 1,324 MW PWR Operation: n/a (construction terminated 1982) Reactor supplier: CE T/G supplier: WH EPC: Ebasco Quick facts: This project was jointly-owned by WPPSS (70%) and a consortium of Pacific Power & Light, Portland General Electric, Puget Sound Power & light, and Washington Water Power (30%). Construction started in 1977. In Jan 1982, WPPSS stopped construction on the Satsop site as the total cost estimate for all five of the system's planned nuclear units was projected to exceed $24bn. Unit-3 was about 65% complete at the time. It was one of the few U.S. units designed to use 100% MOX cores. WPPSS later defaulted on $2.25bn in bonds.
Photograph by Walter Siegmund (wikipedia) |
Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base
Updated 02/23/11